Sabine: Episode 1
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When Sabine’s body is found beneath the cliffs in an apparent suicide, her sister Elly is convinced she was murdered. Elly's hunt for the killer takes her deep into the secret life her sister kept hidden.
Elly has gone to Brighton to pack up her sister’s university room and wait for the results of the post-mortem. But things aren’t quite adding up, and Elly soon starts to unearth the secrets that Sabine was keeping from her.
Sabine is a new five-part murder mystery by Mark Healy.
CAST Elly ..... Sorcha Groundsell Sabine ..... Freya Mavor Mia ..... Aisling Loftus Gabe ..... Tommy Sim’aan Daniel ..... Ivanno Jeremiah Sullivan ..... John Lightbody Poppy ..... Juliana Lisk Elly’s Mum ..... Jessica Turner
Written by Mark Healy Directed by Anne Isger Sound by Keith Graham, Ali Craig and Pete Ringrose Production Co-ordination by Gaelan Davis-Connolly
Sabine is a BBC Audio Production for Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | Sabine by Mark Healy. |
| 0:10.3 | Episode 1. |
| 0:15.8 | Sabine. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh, Sabine. |
| 0:19.2 | Do you remember? |
| 0:21.2 | Do you remember that morning when we were wee girls and Dad dragged us out of bed before dawn |
| 0:25.9 | and led us up into the mountains? |
| 0:30.1 | Oh, do you remember the light, Sabine? |
| 0:33.0 | Now it was as if the whole world was being switched on just for us. |
| 0:38.3 | From cold darkness to gentle grays and then the warmth of the sun, |
| 0:44.3 | touching everything into full, bursting colour. |
| 0:49.4 | And as sat us down and told us, |
| 0:51.7 | there are times in life when the veil is lifted and we see the world as it |
| 0:56.0 | really is for better or worse beyond the dreaming the everyday clutter and confusion we see the truth |
| 1:04.5 | of things and we huddle together in the cold a mac all die an old hippie, and we all laughed. |
| 1:13.6 | He was right. |
| 1:15.6 | There are days when the world reveals itself in all its beauty and glory. |
| 1:20.6 | But there are also days when we are forced to face great pain and loss. |
| 1:26.6 | Days when life jolts us awake and demands that we take heed. |
| 1:33.3 | So no matter how hard we may try, no matter how much we want to, and a veil lifts, these are the days we shall never forget. |
| 1:49.0 | Coast Guard, this is Rescue 175. We've reached target coordinates. Over. |
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